Leviticus 25:20

20 And if you should say, "What shall we eat in the seventh year, {if} we do not sow and we do not gather its yield?"

Leviticus 25:20 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:20

And ye shall say, what shall ye eat the seventh year?
&c.] Such as are of little faith, disbelieve the promise, and distrust the providence of God, and take thought for tomorrow, and indulge an anxiety of mind how they shall be provided with food in the sabbatical year ordered to be observed, in which there were to be no tillage of land, nor pruning of trees: behold, we shall not sow;
that being forbidden: nor gather in our increase;
neither the barley, nor the wheat, nor the grapes, nor olives, nor figs, into their houses and barns, to lay up for stores, as in other years; though they might go out and gather in for present use in common with others: now if any should put the above question, as it was very likely some would, in such a view of things, the answer to it follows.

Leviticus 25:20 In-Context

18 " 'And you shall do my statutes, and you must keep my regulations, and you shall do them, so that you shall live {securely} on the land.
19 And the land shall give its fruit, and you shall eat {your fill}, and you shall live {securely} on it.
20 And if you should say, "What shall we eat in the seventh year, {if} we do not sow and we do not gather its yield?"
21 then I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will make the yield for three years.
22 And you will sow [in] the eighth year, and you shall eat from the old yield; until the ninth year, until the coming of its yield, you shall eat [the] old [yield].

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